Category Archives: Fantasy
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Release 1982
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Melissa Mathison
Stars: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Release 2007
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: David Yates
Writers: Michael Goldenberg, J.K. Rowling
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Melling, Jason Boyd, Richard Macklin, Kathryn Hunter
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373889/
With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Release 2002
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Chris Columbus
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295297/
Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Release 2004
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths, Pam Ferris, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304141/
It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Mike Newell
Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Stars: Eric Sykes, Timothy Spall, David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/
Harry finds himself mysteriously selected as an under-aged competitor in a dangerous tournament between three schools of magic.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Release 2001
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Columbus
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Saunders Triplets, Daniel Radcliffe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The Princess and the Frog
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writers: Ron Clements, John Musker, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, Don Hall, E.D. Baker, Chris Ure, Jared Stern, Dean Wellins, Will Csaklos, Ralph Eggleston
Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/
A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Christopher Plummer, Richard Riddell, Katie Lyons, Richard Shanks
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054606/
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Coraline
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Henry Selick
Writers: Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: David Yates
Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Dave Legeno, Elarica Gallacher, Jim Broadbent
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/
As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.